Fulham have been linked with KAA Gent's Ricardo Avila who has reportedly signed a pre-contract agreement to join the club on loan, but who is he?

Unless you're an expect in Central American football, he probably won't a household name, nor is he even someone that you may have heard of when you were watching that dodgy game at midnight one weekend because you were bored.

We've done a bit of research and tried to find out as much as we can about Avila - here's what we know about him.

Name: Ricardo 'Pepe' Avila

Age: 20

Position: Midfielder

Previous clubs: Koper, who are a Slovenian club that play in the Slovenian PrvaLiga where Avila was sent to get some experience of European football.

Chorrillo, who are a Panamanian club who play in the Liga Panamena de Futbol and play their home games in front of 6000 people at the Estadoi Maracana.

KAA Gent play in the Belgian first division where they recently finished in fourth place. Avila joined the club in March 2017 from Chorrillo but has yet to make an appearance for the side.

Stand out facts: Avila impressed scouts during the CONCACAF U20 Championships which were held in Costa Rica between February 17 and March 5 of this year.

Avila was the second highest scorer in the competition with four goals in five games, alongside the US' Brooks Lennon, while he also played the most passes in the entire tournament, passing the ball 220 times with a 85% pass completion.

He was also ranked fourth highest in terms of balls won, winning it fifteen times in the whole tournament, which was an average of three wins every game he played.

Avila was called up bu Hernan Dario Gomez for Panama's two World Cup qualifying games against Trinidad and Tobago and the United States, although he didn't feature in either game.

He was set to join Tenerife after the U20 tournament which was reportedly a loan with an option to buy, but decided at the last minute to join Gent, where fellow countryman Jose Luis Rodriguez also plays.

Fulham spotted Ayila when they played Gent in a friendly tournament where the Panamanian stood out for the opponents, while he also impressed against Dutch champions Feyenoord, but no agreement was made between the two parties.